Biannual Bibliothon Wrap-Up

July 10, 2016 Book Lovers, Grab Bag, Human Interest, Reading, Social Media

It’s Sunday, and last night at the strike of midnight, the summer 2016 biannual bibliothon came to a close. I did better than I expected since I had family staying with me for three of the nights and work throughout the week, but I didn’t get to everything I had hoped.

Here’s a quick recap of the challenges and my picks:

Group read:  The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson (review coming later this week)

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Wild card pick: I changed from my original pick to To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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Host recommendation: The Archived by Victoria Schwab

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Book featuring your favorite mythical creature: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

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Pick up a book you’ve been putting off: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Read an author you’ve never read before: I doubled up by using The Archived by Victoria Schwab

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New format of reading than you’re used to: Maus 1: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman (graphic novel)

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I completed the group read, host recommendation, book by a new author, and new format during the bibliothon. I ended up finishing the wild card pick this morning which means, ironically, the only book I didn’t get to is the challenge for the book you’ve been putting off.

This is my fourth read-a-thon in the last year and at the end of this one I felt like I often do:

  • Proud of myself for reading more than 1 book in a week
  • Feeling like I could’ve read more
  • Still reaching for that coveted goal of reading 7 books during a 7 day read-a-thon
  • Connected to a community of people I’ve never met
  • Surprised by how much I liked the books that were required/recommended that I wouldn’t have picked up on my own
  • Delighted that every time I’ve done a read-a-thon my reading horizons have expanded
  • Strangely liberated from the feeling that I ‘ought’ to be reading and still wanting to read
  • I can now get my TBR for the next read-a-thon ready

Have you ever participated in a read-a-thon? Why or why not?

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About The Author

Chrissy Hollermann

Chrissy Hollermann is a self-described ‘purpose-driven-all-heart-care-bear-with-an-exceptional-nerdy-streak’ who believes work (and life) should be as authentic and fun as humanly possible. She is a new professional having spent the last seven years in school earning her B.S. in Psychology with minors in leadership and economics as well as a M.S. in Counseling and Student Affairs with focus on resiliency, trauma, shame, and emerging adulthood. She is a certified strengths trainer, has developed campus wide leadership programs, restructured and coordinated an 8 week leadership course, developed trainings and sessions for groups as small as 1 to as large as 70+ infusing pop culture references whenever and wherever possible. Her spare time is spent reading, writing, watching Netflix, movies, and youtube all while drinking an absurd amount of caffeine and she wouldn’t want it any other way.

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